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From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>,
	Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>,
	SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs/mm: add VMA locks documentation
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 19:25:38 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zy4DQmWHpC_QMGTP@archie.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241107190137.58000-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>

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On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 07:01:37PM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> +.. note:: In instances where the architecture supports fewer page tables than
> +   five the kernel cleverly 'folds' page table levels, that is skips them within
> +   the logic, regardless we can act as if there were always five.

What are being skipped if e.g. we only have 3 or 4 page tables?

Confused...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-11-08 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-07 19:01 Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-11-07 21:15 ` Jann Horn
2024-11-08 10:35   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-11-08  8:26 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2024-11-08  8:59   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-11-08 12:25 ` Bagas Sanjaya [this message]
2024-11-08 12:29   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-11-08 12:34     ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-11-12  1:12       ` Bagas Sanjaya
2024-11-11  2:42 ` Wei Yang
2024-11-11 10:31   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-11-11  7:07 ` Wei Yang
2024-11-11 10:39   ` Lorenzo Stoakes

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